You can break a vertebra in your 60s or your 70s or beyond. And a vertebral fracture, yes, many of them kind of don't get diagnosed, but often, they are painful, not all of them, when they occur.

It was a brutal day on this stretch of North Shore reef, the same session in which Tahitian barrel savant Emeio Czermak suffered a compression fracture of his T12 vertebra. Nathan’s video doesn ...